This week brings the release of Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, a film that is, in a weird way, based on another film -- it's inspired by an urban legend that has surrounded Fargo for years. The connection between these two films is undeniably unique, but the idea of making movies about other movies isn't. Below,…
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Each year American Cinema Editors (ACE) recognizes the best editing of the year in narrative film, documentary and television through the Eddie Awards. The nominations for achievement in 2011 have been released. They include a couple of expected films such as Hugo and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and feature a couple other inclusions…
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In 2011, I saw more new movies than I ever have in the past. Previous years I'd flirted with roughly two per week but, this year, thanks to a full Sundance Film Festival, Fantastic Fest, Butt-Numb-A-Thon and other events like AFI Fest and the Los Angeles Film Festival, that number jumped up to 167. Several…
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Gerard Butler, Woody Harrelson, Rashida Jones, and Sofia Vergara got up extra early this morning to announce the nominations for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's 69th Golden Globes Awards, which will be televised on January 15, 2012. Returning host Ricky Gervais (called a "naughty, naughty schoolboy" this morning by Aida Takla-O’ Reilly, the president of…
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Every year during awards season, The Hollywood Reporter somehow organizes the schedules of basically every single actor, actress, writer and director of the year's best films to sit down and discuss them. This, in itself, is pretty spectacular. What's even better is they release the videos of the full conversations so we can watch. For…
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Fans of movies, celebrity and Hollywood gossip are all going to find a lot to like in My Week With Marilyn. The film, which opens November 23, tells the amazing true story of a young go-getter named Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) who developed a unique and magical relationship with Marilyn Monroe when the legendary blond…
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It's difficult to decide which aspect of My Week With Marilyn is its best asset. The film provides an insider look at movie history, gives interesting insight into legendary personalities, has magnificent performances and a wonderful score. Nope, it's none of those things. The best thing about My Week With Marilyn, Simon Curtis' delightful snapshot…
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Thursday has been another day of release date dominoes. First Disney shuffled around a few dates including the resurrected Lone Ranger and Patty Jenkins-helmed Thor 2. Now Warner Bros. has moved up Guillermo Del Toro's sci-fi action epic Pacific Rim from July 12, 2013 to May 10, 2013. In more immediate news, The Weinstein Company…
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One of the great pleasures of cinema is watching people live out the lives of others, and therefore the biopic thrives. It isn't enough that movies have enshrined many personalities in perpetuity; we still love seeing their lives lived again, through others. And so we have My Week With Marilyn, a film in which Michelle…
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We've already seen what Michelle Williams looks like as Marilyn Monroe, but we have yet to see Emma Watson... until now. Check out the first photo of Watson in the film after the jump, along with a clip from our roundtable interview with Watson in November, where she talks about her part in My Week…
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Cameras began to roll this week on My Week With Marilyn, the film that adapts the diaries of Colin Clark, who showed Marilyn Monroe around London while she worked on the film The Princess and the Showgirl. Now we've got the first image of Michelle Williams playing Marilyn Monroe in the film, and word that…
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Briefly: It's almost difficult to believe that Emma Watson's only live-action film role has been Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films. (She did voice a character in one animated film, The Tales of Desperaux, which is the break the Potter-only streak.) Now, with the Potter series all but wrapped and the core cast starting…
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Briefly: The cast of My Week With Marilyn continues to grow, if slowly. The film recreates events that took place when an assistant to Laurence Olivier spent time with Marilyn Monroe while his boss and the actress were making The Prince and the Showgirl. It has Michelle Williams as Monroe and Kenneth Branagh is set…
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There are two Marilyn Monroe biopics brewing. One is Blonde, which stars Naomi Watts as Monroe in a pretty broad telling of the actress's story. The other is My Week With Marilyn, which stars Michelle Williams and is based on a diary by Colin Clark, who worked for Laurence Olivier when the actor shepherded Monroe…
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I know that Marilyn Monroe is an American icon, but do we really need two biopics of the actress in the works? On one hand, there's My Week With Marilyn, which started development last year. Scarlett Johansson was originally slated to star, then Michelle Williams stepped in. And now there is Blonde, which adapts the…
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